I hold a Ph.D. in Russian History ( Univ. MN 1996) and an MLIS from the Univ. of Pittsburgh, 2007. I have been teaching in the MSLS program at Clarion University since 2009. I oversee the Local and Archival Studies, intended to prepare our graduates to work with local special collections across a variety of different cultural heritage settings. I have a book out with co-author Nicole Wedemeyer Miller called Fostering Family History Services: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Volunteers (February 2016, Libraries Unlimited).  Current projects include a local digital portal among highly varied cultural heritage institutions to direct inquiry traffic and provide a low-cost, manageable path to digitizing local materials in partner and non-partner collections.